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Rh said, however, I imagine that she is not your kin at least, that she is n’t the kind that is good f you. You have suffered and are suffering, I kno but I am sure that some day you are going to very grateful to that girl—for a good ma reasons.”

Hugh felt better after that talk, and the end the term brought him a surprise that wiped out 1 depression and his sense of failure. He four too, that his pain was growing less; the wound w healing. Perversely, he hated it for healing, a he poked it viciously to feel it throb. Agony h become sweet. It made life more intense, le beautiful, perhaps, but more wonderful, more re Romantically, too, he felt that he must be true be to his love and to his sorrow, and his love was h ing into a memory that was plaintively gray t shot with scarlet thrills—and his sorrow was bo ing before the relentless excitement of his da life.

The surprise that rehabilitated him in his o respect was his election to the Boule, the seni council and governing board of the student boc It was the greatest honor that an undergrade could receive, and Hugh had in no way expect it. When Nu Delta had first suggested to h that he be a candidate, he had demurred, sayi that there were other men in his delegation betl fitted to serve and with better chances of electic